Company registration number: 08690255 Charity registration number: 1155508
**BILSTON TOWN COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025**
## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1—3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
|Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|5|
|Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|6|
|Balance Sheet|7|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|8—11|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|12—13|
## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Company No. 08690255 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
The Memorandum of Association states that the Charity's objectives are to benefit the public, and in particular the inhabitants and community of Bilston/Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas by:
i) Promoting community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of Association Football and other versions of such which is deemed capable of improving health.
ii) Providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for sport and recreation, plus other leisure time activities for such persons who have a need for such facilities regardless of their age, ethnicity, social deprivation or economic circumstances, with the aim of offering healty recreation and improving the condition of life.
iii) Advancing a team ethic for children and young persons through the means of sport and in any other such way that the Trustees feel will benefit the community within the accordance of the Charity guidelines.
## **Public Benefit**
The Charity's principal activity is the promotion of sports engagement and education by using football as a vehicle for change. This is acheived through a number of football based programs delivered throughout the period.We, as Trustee Directors, consider that these activities and programs satisfy the requirements of the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Financial Review**
## **Financial Position**
The charity did incur a small financial loss and the next year it must return to profitability in a diffucult environment.
Despite this, the charity still holds reserves the equivalent of four months worth of expenditure. Policy states that a minimum of three months should be held in reserves where possible.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Governing Document**
The Memorandum of Association states that the Charity's objectives are to benefit the public, and in particular the inhabitants
and community of Bilston/Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas by:
i) Promoting community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of Association Footbal and other versions of such which is deemed capable of improving health.
ii) Providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for sport and recreation, plus other leisure time activities for such persons who have a need for such facilities regardless of their age, ethnicity, social deprivation or economic circumstances, with the aim of offering healty recreation and improving the condition of life.
iii) Advancing a team ethic for children and young persons through the means of sport and in any other such way that the Trustees feel will benefit the community within the accordance of the Charity guidelines.
The Charity's principal activity is the promotion of sports engagement and education by using football as a vehicle for change. This is acheived through a number of football based programs delivered throughout the period.
We, as Trustee Directors, consider that these activities and programs satisfy the requirements of the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
Mrs Denise Frankham - Chairperson Ms Hayley Farron Mr Ken Dolman Mr Scott Hamilton Mr Simon Archer Mr Karl Frankham Mr Mark Partridge Ms Beverley Momenabadi Mr Brendon Turner Mr Paul Barnsley (appointed 30/07/2025) Mr Jay Morgan Mr Stuart Flavill Mr Philip Barnsley Mr Adam Balfour
## **Charity Number**
1155508
## **Company Number**
08690255
## **Independent Examiner**
Darren Hinett Hinett & Co Accountants 100 Woodcross Lane Woodcross Wolverhampton West Midlands WV14 9BW
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Small Company Rules**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Mrs Denise Frankham Trustee 19/01/2026
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Darren Hinett 19/01/2026 100 Woodcross Lane Woodcross Wolverhampton West Midlands WV14 9BW
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Charitable activities:
Football
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**7**
Charitable activities:
**7**
Football
**NET EXPENDITURE**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**12**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
6,601
40,007
17,239
334|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
3,270
-
-
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
9,871
40,007
17,239
334|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
13,748
42,993
15,027
467|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||64,181|3,270|67,451|72,235|
||(28,404)
(31,312)|-
(10,970)|(28,404)
(42,282)|(26,497)
(54,683)|
||(59,716)|(10,970)|(70,686)|(81,180)|
||4,465|(7,700)|(3,235)|(8,945)|
||4,465
22,021|(7,700)
7,700|(3,235)
29,721|(8,945)
38,666|
||26,486|-|26,486|29,721|
The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)**
## **For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Charitable activities:
Football
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**7**
Charitable activities:
**7**
Football
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**12**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
6,048
42,993
15,027
467|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
7,700
-
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
13,748
42,993
15,027
467|
|---|---|---|---|
||64,535|7,700|72,235|
||(26,497)
(54,683)|-
-|(26,497)
(54,683)|
||(81,180)|-|(81,180)|
||(16,645)|7,700|(8,945)|
||(16,645)
38,666|7,700
-|(8,945)
38,666|
||22,021|7,700|29,721|
The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Balance Sheet As At 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
**10**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**11**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**12**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,377|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
5,377|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
5,902|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||5,377
22,004|-
-|5,377
22,004|5,902
24,714|
||22,004
(895)|-
-|22,004
(895)|24,714
(895)|
||21,109|-|21,109|23,819|
||26,486|-|26,486|29,721|
||26,486|-|26,486|29,721|
||||-
26,486|7,700
22,021|
||||26,486|29,721|
For the year ending 31 May 2025 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
On behalf of the board
Mr Jay Morgan Trustee 19/01/2026
The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 08690255 and registered charity number 1155508. The registered office is .
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.
The charitable company is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Incoming Resources**
All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably.
## 2.3. **Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Fixtures & Fittings 5% - Straight Line Computer Equipment 25% - Straight Line
## 2.4. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|Donations and gifts
Gift aid
Grants
Donations and gifts
Gift aid
Grants|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
4,035
475
2,091|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
300
-
2,970|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
4,335
475
5,061|
|---|---|---|---|
||6,601|3,270|9,871|
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
3,431
667
1,950|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
7,700
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
11,131
667
1,950|
||6,048|7,700|13,748|
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 4. **Income from Other Trading Activities**
|.
**Income from Other Trading Activities**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Merchandise & Replica kit sales
Other income
Bar rental income
.
**Investment Income**
Bank interest receivable
.
**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
he net expenditure is stated after charging/(crediting):
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets - owned
.
**Analysis of Expenditure**
Raising funds
Football
Raising funds
Football|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
501
42,282|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
3,066
425
13,748|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
706
729
13,592|
|||17,239|15,027|
|||**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
334|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
467|
|||**2025**
**£**
525|**2024**
**£**
711|
|||**Support**
**costs**
(see note 8)
**£**
27,903
-|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
28,404
42,282|
||42,783|27,903|70,686|
||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
685
54,683|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 8)
**£**
25,812
-|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
26,497
54,683|
||55,368|25,812|81,180|
## 5. **Investment Income**
## 6. **Net Income/(Expenditure)**
The net expenditure is stated after charging/(crediting):
## 7. **Analysis of Expenditure**
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 8. **Support Costs**
|Premises expenses
General administration
Depreciation
Premises expenses
General administration
Depreciation|**2025**
**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
16,073
11,305
525|
|---|---|
||27,903|
||**2024**
**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
18,825
6,276
711|
||25,812|
## 9. **Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: NIL (2024: NIL)
## 10. **Tangible Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Depreciation**
As at 1 June 2024
Provided during the period
As at 31 May 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 May 2025
As at 1 June 2024
1.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Accruals and deferred income|**Fixtures &**
**Fittings**
**£**
10,482|**Computer**
**Equipment**
**£**
1,374|**Total**
**£**
11,856|
|---|---|---|---|
||10,482|1,374|11,856|
||4,580
525|1,374
-|5,954
525|
||5,105|1,374|6,479|
||5,377|-|5,377|
||5,902|-|5,902|
|||**2025**
**£**
895|**2024**
**£**
895|
## 11. **Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 12. **Movement in Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Restricted Funds
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Restricted Funds
**Total funds**|**As at 1 June**
**2024**
**£**
22,021
7,700|**Income**
**£**
64,181
3,270|**Expenditure**
**£**
(59,716)
(10,970)|**As at 31 May**
**2025**
**£**
26,486
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||29,721|67,451|(70,686)|26,486|
||**As at 1 June**
**2023**
**£**
38,666
-|**Income**
**£**
64,535
7,700|**Expenditure**
**£**
(81,180)
-|**As at 31 May**
**2024**
**£**
22,021
7,700|
||38,666|72,235|(81,180)|29,721|
## 13. **Transactions with Trustees**
None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current or previous year.
No trustee expenses have been incurred.
## 14. **Related Party Disclosures**
There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that require disclosure.
## 15. **Company limited by guarantee**
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.
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**Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts
Donations from organisations
Gift aid
Grants
**Charitable Activities:**
**Football**
Matchday Income
Sponsorship
BTCFC Floodlit cup entry fees
Pitch hire
**Other trading activities**
Merchandise & Replica kit sales
Other income
Bar rental income
**Investments**
Bank interest receivable
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Matchday expenses
Presentation evening trophies
Rates
Light and heat
Repairs and maintenance
Insurance
Telecommunications
Independent examiner's fees
Bank charges
Charitable donations
Sundry expenses
Depreciation of fixtures and fittings
Depreciation of computer equipment
**Charitable Activities:**
**Football**
Matchday expenses
Staffs FA fees|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
4,335
-
475
5,061|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
3,431
7,700
667
1,950
13,748
25,643
12,875
2,460
2,015
42,993
706
729
13,592
15,027
467
467
72,235
(285)
(400)
(3,734)
(8,685)
(6,406)
(3,598)
(510)
(475)
(144)
(223)
(1,326)
(525)
(186)
(26,497)
(40,670)
(318)
...CONTINUED|
|---|---|---|
||9,871
19,899
13,032
2,430
4,646||
||40,007
3,066
425
13,748||
||17,239
334||
||334||
||67,451
(501)
-
(2,494)
(8,060)
(5,519)
(3,941)
(464)
(475)
(135)
(4,700)
(1,590)
(525)
-||
||(28,404)
(29,502)
(596)||
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## **Bilston Town Community Football Club Limited Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|Player fines
Pitch maintenance
**NET EXPENDITURE**|(1,007)
(11,177)|(1,581)
(12,114)|
|---|---|---|
||(42,282)|(54,683)|
||(70,686)|(81,180)|
||(3,235)|(8,945)|
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